History

Madame Masque was born Giulietta Nefaria, to Count Nefaria. At the time, the Count was the leader of an important family in the Maggia crime syndicate. After Giulietta's mother died, Count Nefaria aksed Byron Frost, a wealthy industrialist, to raise his daughter in a respectable family. Byron agreed, renaming the girl Whitney Frost and raising her as his own.

After the Frost's passed away, Count Nefaria approached Whitney while she was engaged to a politician named Roger Vane and revealed her true heritage. Later, her fiance left her, afraid that her connection to a known criminal would destroy his political career. Whitney then accepted her father's invitation to join him in running the Maggia's US operations. She was exceptionally well trained in criminal activities, and in both armed and unarmed combat.

When her father was imprisoned, Frost became the new "Big M", leader of the Nefaria family of the Maggia. She was brilliantly succesfully as a leader, but her role in the Maggia brought her into conflict with Iron Man. While trying to flee from Iron Man her plane crashed and her face was horribly scarred. She was saved however by Mordecai Midas. Midas was obsessed with gold and gave Whitney a golden mask to hide her disfigurement, thus she became known by the name "Madame Masque".

Masque would later betray Midas in order to save Tony Stark after he showed compassion towards her despite her disfigurement. She would not stay with Stark for long however due to her crominal past. She would occassionally impersonate other women in order to get close to Stark again, but her past would always catch up to her in the end and spoil the relationship. Eventually, she would resume control of the Nefaria family and her place in the Maggia.

At one point, Madame Masque became paranoid and started to create copies of herself known as bio-duplicates. One of these bio-duplicates (known simply as Masque) even became an ally of the Avengers. Madame Masque also created robotic servants known as the Inner Guard and named them after notable historical traitors (such as Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Guy Fawkes and Vidkun Quisling).

Madame Masque has since been hired by The Hood to take advantage of the split in the superhero community caused by the Super-Human Registration Act.